Package submission process

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 10/15/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Remember that the bugs blocking FE-REVIEW have already at least been
> > looked at by someone. Bugs blocking FE-NEW are still awaiting review,
> > and there are generally more of them than the ones blocking FE-REVIEW.
> 
> i wish i knew of a way to get bugzilla to tell me a time history for
> FE-NEW nad FE-REVIEW so I could do this more systematically.  Right
> now I sort of randomly spot checking when i rememeber to take a look.
> So I can't say anything more concrete than the current process seems
> to be flowing better than some of the worst case fears would suggest. 
> The situation is far from dire..and for from gridlock.  But I don't
> think its worth a lot of effort trying out things to optmize the
> workflow unless we have some time history we can use as a metric to
> make sure anything we do to change to policy actually has a positive
> impact.

How important do you think these metrics are?  I know that Elliot is 
working on a whole bunch of metrics -- it might make sense to start 
collecting all of these metrics ideas in a central place.

--g

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